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Plus ca change

From the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: In my journey to Boston this year [1754] I met at New York with our new Governor, Mr. Morris… One afternoon in the height of this public quarrel we met in the street. “Franklin,” says he, “you must home with me and spend the evening; I am to haveContinue reading “Plus ca change”

Freestyle

Eighth of November Where were you, when the dam gave way?What did you do on that glorious day? Before–we were young–they took us asideOn our blank faces they etched their dull lies All history’s sins were ours to atoneWe’d reap Equality, from passion sown Like Soviet farmers we took to the taskRedoubling our efforts withContinue reading “Freestyle”

When Marcus Garvey met Franz Boaz

From Marcus Garvey’s 1923 essay “Who and What is a Negro?”: The New York World under date of January 15, 1923, published a statement of Drs. Clark Wissler and Franz Boaz (the latter a professor of anthropology at Columbia University), confirming the statement of the French that Moroccan and Algerian troops used in the invasion ofContinue reading “When Marcus Garvey met Franz Boaz”

The Disparate Impact of Rhetoric

It’s peaks and valleys across the intellectual landscape of our diverse population. Some demographics are more sophisticated than others. This is the media’s implicit justification for suppression of various outrages, from black crime in the States to Muslim barbarity in Europe. To their mind the enlightened liberal isn’t the problem; it’s the ignorant prole thatContinue reading “The Disparate Impact of Rhetoric”

Helter Skelter

The legal concept of disparate impact presumes a uniformity of intelligence and industry across racial categories against which the “disparate” or “adverse” impact of racism stands out, as if in relief. Of course the concept operates from the universal misconception “talent must be distributed equally”, and merely gives a name and legal authority to conventional wisdom thatContinue reading “Helter Skelter”

Same as it Ever was

With several assassinations now of police and at least one attempted mass murder of white civilians motivated by the Black Lives Matter movement it bears asking if it constitutes genuine political terrorism or just a higher level of black hostility toward law enforcement and whites. The loose structure and inherent chaos of BLM work somewhat to immunize itContinue reading “Same as it Ever was”

Akron, Ohio

I overshot the airport by a good ten miles and found myself at a traffic light somewhere around downtown Akron. The expected unrest at the Republican National Convention ending the day before never developed. I was frankly disappointed. The streets had been flooded with law enforcement officers. Everywhere troopers–from everywhere–California Highway Patrol, Missouri, Indiana, FloridaContinue reading “Akron, Ohio”

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